Planters at Government Center

 

      

         Pictured  Planters and Plants maintained by members of The Spring Glen Garden Club at the Hamden Government Center.

     The Spring Glen Garden Club will be participating in Hamden’s Earth Day Celebration on Saturday April 25, 2025, at Town Center Park.  Please stop by our table, we will have goodies to give out,

     The Spring Glen Garden Club will be celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.  Stay tuned for our activities.

     For anyone who is interested in joining our club, please call Dorothy at 203.934.5975

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      The Club has been a fixture in the Hamden community since 1925, a chartered member of The Federated Garden Clubs of Connecticut, Inc., and National Garden Clubs, Inc., since 1929.

     The Spring Glen Garden Club has been in service to the Town of Hamden for 100 years, please stop by our historical display in hall outside the Miller Library in front of the Thorton Wilder Auditorium.

     The Garden Club ongoing projects includes gardens and planters in Spring Glen, Poppy’s Garden on the Farmington Canal Trail and the Historical Herb Garden at The Jonathan Dickerman House, watering the plants at the Government Center and the Miller Library. 

     The Club donated 10 American Elm hybrid trees to the Hamden Center Park as a result of its successful Wreaths for Trees program.  

     Other projects of the Club were a Rhododendron Garden at the entry to Lockwood Cottage and the Red Oak tree (Quercus rubra) affectionately known as “Annie Oakley” planted in the Eli Whitney Park.